[The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer Complete by Charles James Lever]@TWC D-Link bookThe Confessions of Harry Lorrequer Complete CHAPTER XXXVIII 4/7
I sometimes think I am not like a Pole; and if she should discover me"-- "No fear of that in the world; your costume is perfect, your beard unexceptionable.
I could, perhaps, have desired a little less paunch; but then"-- "That comes of fretting, as Falstaff says; and you must not forget that I am banished from my country." "Now, as to your conversation, I should advise you saying very little -- not one word in English.
You may, if you like, call in the assistance of Irish when hard pressed? "I have my fears on that score.
There is no knowing where that might lead to discovery.
You know the story of the Knight of Kerry and Billy McCabe ?" "I fear I must confess my ignorance--I have never heard of it." "Then may be you never knew Giles Daxon ?" "I have not had that pleasure either." "Lord bless me, how strange that is! I thought he was better known than the Duke of Wellington or the travelling piper.
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